The "Hard Site" and the Failure of "Intelligence" at Abu Ghraib

According to the film, The Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, the "hard site" at the Abu Ghraib prison facility in Iraq was where high security prisoners were kept.  These men were "American killers" who had belonged to al-Qaeda, the Taliban, Saddam's guard, or were just terrorists in general.  Tier 1B housed women and children prisoners who were kept in an attempt to get their "wanted" family members to turn themselves in.  There was sometimes less than ten guards for 1,000 prisoners at the "hard site."

Most of the prisoners taken to Abu Ghraib were not guilty of anything other than being in the wrong place at the wrong time.  Between 75 and 80% of the prisoners interrogated did not have any intelligence to provide but were imprisoned sometimes for months on end.